In Real Time

Rising pianist Christian Sands on playing jazz 

By Ben Finane

Table for One

Menahem Pressler embarks on a solo career after a lifetime spent playing with others.
By Stuart Isacoff

A Ceaseless Flow of Invention

Marc-André Hamelin reveals the unexpected.
By Bradley Bambarger

Peter Serkin — A Strange Trip Indeed

Peter Serkin: A Strange Trip Indeed
By Daniel Felsenfeld

Brahms’ Third Piano Concerto?

Pianist–arranger Dejan Lazič transforms the Brahms Violin Concerto into a work for his instrument.
By Bradley Bambarger

Portrait of a Portraitist

The Life and Times of Virgil Thomson
By Jed Distler

Power Trio

Lang Lang, Mischa Maisky and Vadim Repin tackle the Russians.
By Damian Fowler

Practice, Practice

Practice makes perfect, but not always.
By Arnold Steinhardt

Built to Last

Chopin turns two hundred, with authority.
By Jed Distler

Writing at the Piano

The piano as quintessential machine for songwriting
By Damian Fowler

Downtown, You're Legendary

Now eighty, a look back at the Village Vanguard’s unlikely path
By Jed Distler

Drawn to Brahms

Cellist Zuill Bailey and pianist Awadagin Pratt find a connection.
By Donald Rosenberg

Playing the Barre

The invisible but indispensable ballet rehearsal pianist.
By Marcia Adair

Competition as Community

Barn-raising with the American Pianists Association in Indianapolis.
By Lara Downes

Writer's Respite

Music as solace from words
By Ben Finane

Leon Fleisher

The heroic pianist reflects on his discography.

By Bradley Bambarger

Kung Fu and the Art of Pianism

Andreas Haefliger finds a freer connection to the keyboard.
By Jens F. Laurson

The Artist

Piotr Anderszewski on sabbaticals, filmmaking, his hometown of Warsaw, curation, and his love for Mozart, Janácek
and Schumann
By Ben Finane

Equal Opportunity

A pianist insinuates classical music into The Big Easy.
By Ben Finane

Looking Forward

Fred Hersch wasn't ready to quit.
By Clifford S. Tinder